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An access point based fec mechanism for video transmission over wireless la ns

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An Access Point-Based FEC Mechanism for Video Transmission
Over Wireless LANs
ABSTRACT:
Forward Error Correction (FEC) is one of the most common means of performing packet error recovery in data
transmissions. FEC schemes typically tune the FEC rate in accordance with feedback information provided by
the receiver. However, the feedback and FEC rate calculation processes inevitably have a finite duration, and
thus the FEC rate implemented at the sender may not accurately reflect the current state of the network.
This paper proposes an Enhanced Random Early Detection Forward Error Correction (ERED-FEC) mechanism
to improve the quality of video transmissions over Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). In contrast to
most FEC schemes, the FEC redundancy rate is calculated directly at the Access Point (AP).
Moreover, the redundancy rate is tuned in accordance with both the wireless channel condition (as indicated by
the number of packet retransmissions) and the network traffic load (as indicated by the AP queue length). The
experimental results show that the proposed ERED-FEC mechanism achieves a significant improvement in the
video quality compared to existing FEC schemes without introducing an excessive number of redundant packets
into the network.
EXISTING SYSTEM:
The lost packets during timeouts, or in response to explicit receiver requests by contrast, in FEC schemes, the
effects of potential packet losses are mitigated in advance by transmitting redundant packets together with the
source packets such theta block of packets can be successfully reconstructed at the receiver end even if some of
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the packets within the block are lost during transmission. Of the two approaches, FEC schemes result in a lower
retransmission latency, and are therefore widely preferred for the delivery of video streams over wireless
networks Conventional FEC mechanisms are sender-based, i.e., the redundant packets are generated and
encoded at the sender end. Broadly speaking, sender-based FEC schemes can be categorized as either Static
FEC (SFEC) or Dynamic FEC (DFEC). In SFEC schemes, the number of redundant packets added to the source
packets remains constant irrespective of changes in the network condition. The recovery performance of SFEC
schemes is therefore somewhat unpredictable because they fail to capture the real-time network conditions and
adjust the FEC redundancy rate accordingly.
DISADVANTAGES:
The FEC rate is tuned dynamically in accordance with changes in the channel condition or network load.
In most DFEC schemes, the FEC rate is tuned at the sender based on information provided by the receiver.
The FEC redundancy rate is traditionally calculated at the application layer based on feedback
information such as that provided by acknowledgement messages.
PROPOSED SYSTEM:
The evaluating the impact of packets losses on the percentage of successfully decoded frames at the receiver
end to calculate the error propagation due to packet losses, the interdependencies of the coded frames must be
considered. The MPEG-4 standard defines three frame types for compressed video streaming, namely I frame P
frame (Predictive-coded) and B frame. I frames are encoded and decoded independently of any other frames in
the sequence.
The number of FEC redundant packets generated by the four schemes under light and heavy traffic loads,
respectively. In the case of a light load, the number of FEC redundant packets generated by the SFEC and RED-
FEC schemes remains approximately constant as the packet loss rate increases since neither scheme considers
the channel condition when evaluating the FEC redundancy rate by contrast, the ACFEC and ERED-FEC
schemes.
We consider the packet loss rate when determining the FEC redundancy rate, and thus for both algorithms, the
number of redundant packets increases with an increasing packet loss rate. In the case of a heavy load, the
number of FEC redundant packets generated by the SFEC and ACFEC algorithms is the same as that generated

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MODULE DESCRIPTION:
ADAPTIVE CROSS-LAYER FEC MECHANISM (ACFEC):
The proposed an Adaptive Cross-layer FEC mechanism (ACFEC) in which loss information was retrieved from
the ARQ function of the MAC layer and the redundancy rate was controlled adaptively in accordance with
changes in the network condition. However, ACFEC does not take the effect of the network traffic load into
consideration. As a result, packets may be lost at the wireless AP under heavy network loads due to a self-
induced congestion problem.
ERED-FEC:
We propose an Enhanced Random Early Detection Forward Error Correction (ERED-FEC) mechanism for
improving the quality of video transmissions over wireless LANs (WLANs). In the proposed approach,
redundant FEC packets are generated dynamically at the AP in accordance with both the condition of the
wireless channel and the current network traffic load.
The channel condition is evaluated by monitoring the number of packet retransmissions. As the number of
retransmissions increases the condition of the wireless channel deteriorates), a greater number of redundant
FEC packets are generated. Conversely, as the channel condition improves, the number of FEC packets is
reduced.

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FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION (FEC):
The basic principle of FEC entails injecting redundant packets into the video stream together with the source
Thus, provided that no more than packets are lost in transmission, the source transmission packets can be
successfully recovered at the receiver. Since FEC schemes enable the recovery of source packets which would
otherwise be lost, the effective loss rate in the transmission network is lower than the actual loss rate.
FEC codec, redundant packets are derived from the original packet using conventional coding theory
techniques. Of the various traditional error correcting codes available for this purpose, Reed-Solomon (RS)
code has attracted particular interest. RS code provides an ideal error protection capability against packet losses
since it is a maximum distance separable code, no other coding scheme exists capable of recovering lost source
data symbols from a lesser number of received code symbols.
SENDER-BASED FEC MECHANISMS:
The proposed a sender-based Constant Error Rate FEC (CER-FEC) scheme for enabling the dynamic QoS
control of real-time multimedia streams over heterogeneous environments comprising wired and wireless
connections. As shown in the proposed scheme, the packet error rate is periodically observed at the receiver
side and any change in the error rate is fed back to the sender. Upon receiving this information, the sender
calculates the number of redundant packets required to restore the error rate to its original value. In other words,
the FEC redundancy rate is dynamically controlled in such a way as to maintain a constant packet error rate at
the receiver end.

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CONTRIBUTION OF PRESENT:
The major contribution of the present study is to propose a new AP-based FEC mechanism (ERED-FEC) for
improving thequality of video transmissions over wireless LANs (WLANs). The literature contains many
proposals for sender-based FEC schemes which have a finite duration to feedback information from the
receiver. Thus, the FEC rate determined at the sender end may not accurately reflect the current network
condition.
AP-BASED FEC MECHANISMS:
The number of redundant packets is increased as the queue length shortens, but is reduced as the queue length
grows. Importantly, when the queue is near to full, no FEC packets are generated in order to avoid overloading
the network. By adopting this approach, the RED-FEC mechanism improves the quality of the delivered video
stream without injecting an excessive number of redundant packets into the network.